APOLLINAIRE
One of the great pioneers of the modern movement in literature is now
available to American readers in an excellent translation by Roger
Shattuck.
The Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire
($3.50) con–
tains a goodly section of poetry, with the original French en face, and
representative examples of Apollinaire's prose.
DELMORE SCHWARTZ
has not published a book of verse for eight years. Now, in
Vaudeville
for a Princess
($2.75), he demonstrates an increased and moving mastery.
In this volume his lyrics are interspersed with highly diverting prose
sketches in satiric vein.
EDWARD DAIll.BERG
who attracted the notice of D. H. Lawrence with his novel
Bottom
Dogs,
has won from no less a critic than Herbert Read this praise for
his new philosophical poem
The Flea of Sodom
($1.50): "one of the
greatest writers of our time."
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
has written a novel which richly fulfills the promise of his brilliant short
stories.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
is the dramatic story of the
loves of an American actress in Italy. The trade edition is priced at $2.00,
and a limited, signed first edition at $7.50.
THE NEW ITALlAN WRITERS
are on view in a distinctive anthology assembled by Marguerite Caetani,
editor of the Roman review,
Botteghe Oscure.
Prose and poetry by
fourteen of the latest generation of Italian writers, all in translation, of
course. ($3.50)
WILLIAM EMPSON
We have recently received from England a new printing of Empson's
Some Versions of Pastoral,
one of the classics of modern literary criticism.
($4.00)
JULIEN GRACQ
is reckoned one of the most important of the new French novelists. His
A Dark Stranger
($2.50) will appeal to readers who like Proust or Henry
James. Translated
by
w.
J.
Strachan.
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